September 2002
The SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA AND INFORMATION IN THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN will be held 5-6 September 2002, at the National Academy of Sciences
Auditorium, 2100 C Street NW, in Washington, DC. The Symposium will bring together
leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved
in the creation, dissemination, and use of STI to discuss: the role, value, and
limits of public-domain STI in the research and education context; the various
legal, economic, and technological pressures on producers of public domain STI,
and their potential effects on research and education; the existing and proposed
approaches for preserving the public domain or providing "open access" to STI in
the United States; and other important issues in this area that may benefit from
further analysis. The meeting will be free and open to the public, but advance
registration is required. For additional information and registration, please
visit the Symposium web site at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium%20Announcement.html
or contact the project director, Paul Uhlir,
tel. (202) 334 2807; e-mail: mailto:puhlir@nas.edu.
CDIAC
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P. O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335 USA
(865) 574-0390
(865) 574-2232 (FAX)
cdiac@ornl.gov
Data and Information Requests: (865) 574-3645